"For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat," the New York Times assures us, under the posed photo of the proud owner of "Monty."

The NYT professionaly produced photo of (not the real) record is a large, smashing close-up portrait of Kalin-Casy snuggling cat Monty by a sunfilled window overlooking a serene looking homeown American street.

The accusatory Google Street View "evidence," on the other hand is dark and ominous. So dark, in fact that nothing is discernable, certainly not the "indictment" worthy "zoom" of "Monty, her cat, sitting on a perch in the living room window of her second-floor apartment," that the NYT writes of.

Perhaps that is why Kalin-Casy actually made her case to the sometimes "blog of record," BoingBoing, rather than the touted "newspaper of record."

The Google reaction? As I predicted upon the launch of Google's "Street View", the Google position is the same that Amazon's A9 "Block View" position was:

It allows users to request that a photo be removed for privacy reasons, but the company had received few such requests.

Talk of smelly armpits and cuddly cats may be fun, for some.

The REAL Google big, bad privacy RISKS, however, are alive and well and impacting the world and its citizens 24/7, as I have been documenting and analyzing in depth.